Could I Conceive Being a Brain in a Vat? JOHN D. COLLIER This article accepts the premises of Putnam's notorious argument that we could not be a brain in a vat, and argues that even this allows a robust (although relativistic) form of realism. The strategy is to distin-guish between our ability to state a theory and our ability to conceive the

Magic, semantics, and Putnam’s vat brains.Mark Sprevak & Christina Mcleish - 2003 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (2):227-236.

Re: Brains in a vat.Stephen Hetherington - 2000 - Dialectica 54 (4):307–312.

The brain in the vat and the question of metaphysical realism.J. Smart - 2003 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (2):237-247.

Semantic Pragmatism and A Priori Knowledge.Henry Jackman - 2001 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (4):455-480.

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